BotSim: 通过有用机器人缓解阴谋社会的形成
BotSim: Mitigating The Formation Of Conspiratorial Societies with Useful Bots
AI总结：
BotSim通过引入有用机器人缓解阴谋社会的形成，展示Good机器人在信息纠正中的高效性和可持续性。
摘要：
社会可以发展成一种阴谋社会，其中大多数人相信并传播阴谋论。人工智能催生了社交媒体机器人，这些机器人可以自动传播阴谋论。目前，组织通过人工事实核查和传播反叙事来对抗阴谋论的传播。然而，利用相同自动化技术创建有用机器人的影响尚未得到充分探索。为此，我们创建了BotSim，一个基于代理的社会模型，在小型世界网络中引入了有用机器人。这些有用机器人包括Info-Correction机器人，它们将不良信息纠正为良好信息，以及Good机器人，它们发布良好信息。模拟代理通过生成、消费和传播信息进行交互。我们的结果显示，如果不加以控制，坏机器人可以形成阴谋社会，这可以通过Info-Correction机器人或Good机器人缓解；然而，Good机器人比Info-Correction机器人更高效和可持续。主动发布良好信息比反应性信息纠正更节省资源。通过我们的观察，我们扩展了机器人作为恶意社交媒体代理的概念，向可以用于善恶目的的自动化社交媒体代理概念。这些结果对设计维护健康社交网络生态系统的信息策略具有重要意义。
英文摘要：
Societies can become a conspiratorial society where there is a majority of humans that believe, and therefore spread, conspiracy theories. Artificial intelligence gave rise to social media bots that can spread conspiracies in an automated fashion. Currently, organizations combat the spread of conspiracies through manual fact-checking processes and the dissemination of counter-narratives. However, the effects of harnessing the same automation to create useful bots are not well explored. To address this, we create BotSim, an Agent-Based Model of a society in which useful bots are introduced into a small world network. These useful bots are: Info-Correction Bots, which correct bad information into good, and Good Bots, which put out good messaging. The simulated agents interact through generating, consuming and propagating information. Our results show that, left unchecked, Bad Bots can create a conspiratorial society, and this can be mitigated by either Info-Correction Bots or Good Bots; however, Good Bots are more efficient and sustainable than Info-Correction Bots . Proactive good messaging is more resource-effective than reactive information correction. With our observations, we expand the concept of bots as a malicious social media agent towards automated social media agent that can be used for both good and bad purposes. These results have implications for designing communication strategies to maintain a healthy social cyber ecosystem.
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